Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) Tax Rate (2014 - 2026)
Business First Bancshares' Tax Rate was 20.20% in Q2 2026, down 0.93 percentage points from 21.13% a year earlier but up 0.09 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST) Tax Rate (2014 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
On a trailing twelve-month basis, Business First Bancshares' Tax Rate was 20.04% through Jun 30, 2026, down 1.35 percentage points year-over-year; for FY2025, it was 20.35%, down 1.26 percentage points from FY2024.
- Tax Rate shows a five-year change of +1.90 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- In earlier years, Tax Rate was 21.61% in FY2024 (+0.03 pp), 21.57% in FY2023 (+0.67 pp), 20.90% in FY2022 (+1.66 pp) and 19.24% in FY2021 (+0.79 pp).
- Quarterly Tax Rate has moved between 17.37% (Q4 2021) and 22.61% (Q4 2024) over five years.
- Compared with a year earlier, Tax Rate has declined for four straight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -0.68 percentage points over the last eight quarters.
- The best year-over-year quarter for Tax Rate over five years was Q4 2022 (a gain of 4.32 percentage points); the worst was Q4 2025 (a drop of 3.67 percentage points).
- Per Business Quant data, BFST's Tax Rate in the three quarters before Q2 2026 was 20.11% (Q1 2026), 18.94% (Q4 2025) and 20.86% (Q3 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 20.20% |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 20.11% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 18.94% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 20.86% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 21.13% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 20.43% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 22.61% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 21.65% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 20.95% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 21.15% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 22.20% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 21.22% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 21.18% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 21.89% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 21.68% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 20.58% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 20.21% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 20.87% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 17.37% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 20.24% |
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Business First Bancshares, Inc. Tax Rate API
Pull this series into your own models, spreadsheets and apps with the Business Quant
Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
frequency, period or values and it follows. Swap YOUR_API_KEY for your own key.
https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=tax-rate&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "tax-rate", "ticker": "BFST", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=tax-rate&ticker=BFST&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();